With the advent of microservices, people commonly ask, "Is it possible to run my legacy virtual machines in Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) or VMware with my microservices on Kubernetes, or do I need to migrate them to containers?" One possible answer to that question is KubeVirt.
The KubeVirt project turns Kubernetes into an orchestration engine for application containers and VM workloads. It addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but have existing VM-based workloads that they can’t easily put in containers. The technology provides a unified development platform in which developers can build, modify, and deploy applications that reside in both application containers and VMs in a common, shared environment.